Got to wonder how many more of them there are out there...
In my initial search the answer is... practically nil !
I see some link history of another model with Boris' signature on it, but can't find any readable stuff ..
Haven't found another example of this one as yet.
Thought I'd see how well it performs so recorded some live beats on it.. oddly it sounds better in the hand, I struggled to capture the lo-fi sound with my hi-fi mic...
Sweet guitar Portland.. Yamaha SG2000 single cutaway look.. love the abalone binding grippy knobs and the grover tuners are great on these..
Unless it's dirt cheap I would always recommend buying a guitar that you can lay your hands on first. There is so much variation. Less so with an Ibanez but never buy a Gibson without trying it first. Some mail order companies will scrutinse stock and cherry pick the better ones to hold back too ..
I'll grab u a pic of my fav guitar a 1978 Ibanez roadster later it's in amazing condition...
Got to wonder how many more of them there are out there...
In my initial search the answer is... practically nil !
I see some link history of another model with Boris' signature on it, but can't find any readable stuff ..
Haven't found another example of this one as yet.
Thought I'd see how well it performs so recorded some live beats on it.. oddly it sounds better in the hand, I struggled to capture the lo-fi sound with my hi-fi mic...
Sweet guitar Portland.. Yamaha SG2000 single cutaway look.. love the abalone binding grippy knobs and the grover tuners are great on these..
Unless it's dirt cheap I would always recommend buying a guitar that you can lay your hands on first. There is so much variation. Less so with an Ibanez but never buy a Gibson without trying it first. Some mail order companies will scrutinse stock and cherry pick the better ones to hold back too ..
I'll grab u a pic of my fav guitar a 1978 Ibanez roadster later it's in amazing condition...
Cool, pics of an old school roadstar are always a winner, gorgeous machines.
I basically was after a slightly older specific through neck fixie with EMGs for ages and finally gave up trying to find one in good nick for a reasonable price and punted for the ARZIR20FB in the pimp finish instead. Had tried the recently replaced ARZ800's and was nearly sold on those and this is effectively the next evolution. Odd one in that pretty much every other (non limited) guitar in the Iron Label range is black, this one looks much prettier, but they are already being reduced and sold ex display as the djent friendly downtune spec doesn't tie in with the pimp finish. As I play rock/metal without feeling the need for dropping any more than a semitone (Sabbath, Slayer, some GnR etc) I got a great discount from our local shop (even better than using Thomann with the € rate as it is) and lovely finish to boot. They're ordering one in from distributor (headstock) so if there's any issue, will just get slung back - they also want to have a fettle with it tbh!
Know what you mean about Gibsons though, given the variability and the fact that the equivalent Epiphones are 95% as good for 20% of the price, I could never justify buying a "pukka" Les Paul... Closest I'm ever likely to come to Gibson is the new Epi' Iommi SG sig, but this Ibby should perform the same role without having the "fuck me, the weight and balance of this is pants" factor. For some reason, the new sig seems to have strap button on back of neck rather than the horn like Tony Iommi's actual guitar and the g400 sig that appeared a few years back. May just be crap pictures from 'messe though.
Wasn't sure when the distributor said they were in short supply, "get your orders in quick for early hands on ".. Turns out to be true.. I don't think any have hit this side of the pond yet, sonicstate will surely review 'on receipt'..
Fingers crossed should be playing on 2x Mother in a rack shortly..
well, a local company makes the boards for them, they're surface mount parts - they wouldn't be able to sell things for the price they do if those were hand soldered - the big systems are made by hand, they start in the tens of thousands and one is $150k
To be fair it looks like Moog build pretty much are making things by hand from the ground up. Hard to know where to draw the line these days does a hand made amp need the toroidal transformer to be hand wound ?
One factory that impresses me in JM Lab.. they have a reputation for keeping expertise and production in-house including the drivers.. the build quality of everything from the mid range up is amazing.
Primare are another great swedish company I have one of their amps the design attention to detail and build quality is lush
(o)(o) wrote:I'll grab u a pic of my fav guitar a 1978 Ibanez roadster later it's in amazing condition...
Cool, pics of an old school roadstar are always a winner, gorgeous machines.
Forgot about that..
Well here it is.. the "amazing" condition Roadstar as you can see.
This guitar had a lovely natural lacquer finish.. until about 1986 when it got sprayed up with aerosols and left out to dry on a hot summers day. Unfortunately forgot to bring it in so it got rained on. It's also been down a couple of flights of stairs. Most of the intonation issues were sorted out with the truss rod since, but things have never been quite the same. The action is really good (low) and the neck is thin and fast, but it has a somewhat warped and twisted "personality" due to the abuse. To correct for this I pull the neck outward to make microtonal compensations when playing. So yeah, you don't need to pay thousands of bucks for a distressed look! Should at least sort those pickups there..
The thing is, as I'm a music noob, I don't understand how you would connect a keyboard to a Moog Mother-32 or how you would record each stroke on the keys
as notation in a sequencer on the PC. Or is this just not the spirit of this and it's all knob twiddling or you're not a proper musician ?
I know you have direct connections via USB on some MIDI synth keyboards to do this but with this kind of gear, I have no clue as what is used to connect all the different parts to get the gorgeous analog sound and the convenience of a visual sequencer combined. Are you only allowed to record the direct sound output and nothing else?
Also noticed there is Attack and Sustain but no Decay or Release (as far as I could see) ?
has a midi in socket, so you can use a midi keyboard if you like
a lot of connections are normalled inside, so you can play it with nothing patched, then when you plug cables in to the patchbay you break the normalled connection and replace it with the new signal
